what can go wrong with human relations

This article is brilliant and reveals a lot concerning what can go wrong with human relations:


http://www.cejournal.org/GRD/PreOedipal.htm

a segment:

Two-dimensionality underlies also the law of all or nothing on which the magical structure of consciousness is based. There are no gradations of value and there is no ability to differentiate part from whole or essence from periphery. This fact too makes it so difficult for a person on the magical level consciousness to make choices. Also, it adds to one's inability to be criticized. For, if the other does not like one aspect of oneself, he is experienced as dismissing one's whole being. And, conversely, one cannot afford to dislike one aspect of the other, for fear of denying and thus destroying and hence losing all of him. No wonder that criticism is not negotiable for a person who lives on the magical level of consciousness and that to tell him that he is hypersensitive to it is merely adding insult to injury.